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  1. Ever hear od redundancy on How Do You Backup 20TB of Data? · · Score: 1

    Redundancy is the way you do it.
    You have an identical system as the first one, with 30TB of drive space, and every night you copy the data over to the other system. That will cover you for anything short of a house fire/tornado/earthquake/flood.

  2. Meat Space on How St. Louis Is Bootstrapping Hundreds of Programmers · · Score: 1

    If you're going to co-op cyberpunk terms, at least get them right. It's Meat Space.

  3. Re:An oldie from back ni the day... on Previously-Unseen Photos of Challenger Disaster Appear Online · · Score: 4, Funny

    Why does NASA only have Sprite?

    Because they couldn't get 7 up.

  4. Re:Not surprising on World of Warcraft Character Becomes Campaign Issue · · Score: 2

    Not to mention that us 40 year olds were the young 23 year olds playing in Everquest, Ultima Online, DAoC, AO and all of the first generation MMO's that WoW copied from.

  5. Re:Morbo voice: "Trademarks do not work that way!" on Author Threatens To Sue Book Reviewers Over Trademark Infringement · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Reading comprehension. It's a skill you should learn.
    He's not stopping reviews of HIS work. He's stopping reviews of someone else's work, because the Book's name infringes on his TradeMark.

  6. Re:Format and reinstall on Ask Slashdot: Rescuing a PC That's Been Hit By Scammers? · · Score: 1

    Reflash the bios.
    BIOS Trojans are evil and bad.

  7. Re:Concierge service on Feds: We Need Priority Access To Cloud Resources · · Score: 1

    Property Rights are very specific, and the Government can take away any amount of your property they feel like, they just have to give you Due Process.
    Eminent Domain
    Taxation/Liens
    Confiscation of Property
    Fines

    You'll find that the Constitution doesn't really say that just because you paid Money for it, it's all yours whinewhine! Really it says the opposite.
    Not to mention, Cloud Services, you're not even BUYING anything. You're renting, with an incredibly obnoxious EULA holding you by the gonnads threatening to rip them off if you so much as cough in a way that displeases the Cloud Service Provider.

  8. Re:Concierge service on Feds: We Need Priority Access To Cloud Resources · · Score: 1

    the commercial world where access is purchased and thus entitled based on a little thing called the constitution

    That you actually believe this is frightening on levels I can't even begin to express. I mean, really. You think that stuff that's purchased somehow gives you entitlement to the Constitution? That shows such a massive miss-understanding of what the Constitution is and does that it's actually worry some that you have the ability to vote.

  9. OCS Inventory on Ask Slashdot: Documenting a Tangle of Network Devices? · · Score: 1

    It has a discover mode, that will reach out and basically ping every IP address. It's a big job for the initial round but afterwards, it's pretty easy to keep track.

    It also has an inventory client/agent for linux, mac and windows computers and servers. And It's open source and free as in beer, and also speech.

  10. Re:Comparison of technologies on Damaged US Passport Chip Strands Travelers · · Score: 4, Funny

    When I was 12, I went to the Post Office to pick up a money order that was in my name. All I had on me for ID was my French Passport (not being a US citizen at the time). The lady said she couldn't take a foreign passport as proof of ID, and asked me to provide my driver's license.

    I mentally facepalmed, and informed her I was 12, and unlikely to have a driver's license anytime in the near future.

    Most people with a modicum of authority are idiots.

  11. Re:When is this news? on Open Source Increasingly Replaced By Open APIs · · Score: 1

    2007?
    Try 1987 :)

  12. Re:How do you determine healthy food? on IBM Granted Your-Paychecks-Are-What-You-Eat Patent · · Score: 2

    Because Americans don't know how to cook vegetables. Most americans veggies taste bad, and not tasty. People are raised with their mothers having done horrid things to vegetables, and now they won't eat them.

    Add to that, that Veggies are EXPENSIVE, and you get a double edged sword.

    You want to improve dietary health in america, bring back Home Ec in school. Teach everyone how to cook, at least the staples. But if all you eat are canned veggies, you're going to hate veggies.

  13. Re:Tuition math lesson on Oracle Sued For 'Extortion, Lies' By Montclair State University · · Score: 1

    I call bullshit on your $4 per credit hour.
    A wyoming community college, just had a $4 per credit hour RAISE in their tuition.
    NKU is charging a $4 per credit hour activity fee.

    There is no way you paid $4 per credit hour in the last 5 years. Probably in the last 15.

  14. Re:Shortage of Critical Component drives down mark on Intel Revenue Dives $1bn On Hard Disk Shortage · · Score: 1

    Just because we foresaw it, does not mean we were allowed to buy in anticipation, or to skip part of our 2 month purchasing approval process to get our stuff in before this happened.

    Never underestimate the power of bureaucracy.

  15. When they Ask, Where were you. on NASA Charters Flights Aboard Virgin's SpaceShipTwo · · Score: 1, Insightful

    When they ask, what was the moment that the US gave up. This will be the moment we remember. NASA having to charter flights to space, from a Private Company. When was it that, We the People, finally Deep Throated Corporations. It was then.

    Our priorities as a nation are completely screwed up.

  16. Re:This is cool on Windows 8 Roundup · · Score: 1

    But, I want to use Google Chrome :) Not Craptastic IE8
    And I want to search on Google, not Bing.

  17. Re:This is stupid on Computer De-Evolution: Awesome Features We've Lost · · Score: 0, Troll

    Also what kind of loser maximizes windows. I hate retards who full screen windows on 24 inch monitors.

  18. Re:Floor plans... on Bin Laden Hideout Recreated In Counter-Strike · · Score: 1

    That's a complete StrawMan.

    Did this man bomb North Korean buildings, killing North Korean people? Has he been on TV ranting about Death to the Koreans?

  19. Re:Target the REAL criminals on Department of Justice: FBI Too Focused On Child Porn · · Score: 1

    Part of the goal of going after the people who watch it, is to get them to turn over on the places where they got their CP from.

  20. Re:Just be careful with that on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Leave My Router Open? · · Score: 1

    Black Lists Don't work.

    White Lists are the only real reasonable tool in this case.
    And boy is that a headache.

  21. Re:Look a little higher up the example chain... on Teacher Suspended Over Blog About Students · · Score: 1

    Dude that was 12 years ago.. LET IT GO.

  22. Re:Republicans = corporations on The Right's War On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Wow,

    Do you hear yourself speak.

    Those guys went above and beyond their jobs.
    They worked tons of unpaid overtime digging through the rubble. Hoping to find survivors, but more so, hoping to give families closure and the ability to bury their dead.

    Are you seriously asking why this is a Federal issue and not a NY city issue?
    You do understand that the bill covers First Responders from other Cities that went to the Trade Center int he after math to help.

    And its' not new debt, as the damn bill has a revenue stream attached to it, to pay for the thing.

    You're probably the same guy who thinks that it's okay to forget about Soldiers disabled in action after a few years.

  23. Re:America's Heart on The Right's War On Net Neutrality · · Score: 0

    I'm still trying to figure out why the Heartland votes predominantly Republican,
    When Republicans have been literally shitting on Small Farmers for the last 100 years.

  24. Re:I'm always intrigued by desert solar projects on Sahara Solar To Power Half the World By 2050 · · Score: 1

    Couldn't we do this in the US deserts?
    The Mojave, the Sonoran?

  25. Re:Huh???? on Righthaven To Explain Why Reposting Isn't Fair Use · · Score: 1

    1) post article you own copyright to anonymously on Slashdot
    2) sue slashdot for copyright infringment
    3) settle out of court
    4) PROFIT